After doing some thinking after recovering from that cap one disaster, as well as dealing with the non-stop barrage of insults, jokes and Les Miles farks from my Big 12 friends. I have decided to ignore all that, carry my LSU love proudly and tell them to eat my shorts. Geaux Les Miles... As quoted by Jack Ryan in the Hunt for Red October "Give the man a chance" I can see already some LSU fans will have a selective memory about Nick Saban, I love Nick Saban, will always have his picture in my LSU room. However people I can see are going to forget the abysmal coaching performance in the recent cap 1 bowl, the blow out losses to UGA, the shutout by a Bama team strapped on probation (31-0) the Cotton Bowl, UAB having to comeback against TROY STATE, 2-3 against Tubs, or the some times condescending speeches he gave us fans from time to time. They will forget the yearly stress fests as Sexton lit up fax machines of the NFL with Nicks resume. They will remember all the good Saban did, and that should be I will and will always think fondly of Saban. My point, lets not start rallying the horses and torches when Les has a bad moment. This is the SEC, we are going to lose some. Now if Les Comes in goes 6-5 two years in a row and has recruiting classes in the 30's then yes. But I have faith he is going to do the best job he can for LSU and the program. Which is all you can ask for. Ask yourself, who could have LSU gotten at this point better ? Del Rio ? No thanks for me, Petrino ? You think Saban was bad with the fax machine. Everyone else was a pipe dream. Saban really screwed us by his timing and all the Saban Sunshine pumpers might want to consider that. Fact is we got a coach who did pretty well being a 2nd rate school in a football state, However he beat those gods gifts to college sports awesome Sooners twice, so if my math is right LSU coaches in recent time are 3-2 against those Bob Stoops.. I am concerned we may simply be another resume padding for Michigan or the NFL. I am hoping Les may have gotten his dream job, many other top notch programs have their coach in place, hopefully LSU can have theirs. If not we shall try again. But until then.... Geaux Tigers and Geaux Les Miles. Welcome to the finest state, program and fan base in all of sports...
I support the new coach. Let's give Les a chance. I think emotions have been high amongst the LSU faithful over the past month or so, ever since it looked imminent that Saban would leave. Let's face it, LSU has never achieved this level of consistent success before, and accepting change is difficult. I agree that the timing really sucks, and you know what, there's no guarantees that had we landed Spurrier or Meyer, or whomever, that they would work out. There's just no telling. I really believe that we'll come out of this fine, and hopefully in the long run, in better shape than before. Let's think positively about this! :geaux:
Meyer isn't any better than Miles His ND background alone is worse than Miles' resume. Frankly, I think that Miles is the best of what was left out there--much better than Petrino. The whole problem has been the way the search was ballyhooed as being a search for the premier person. The reality was that a premier person wasn't really available. Skip et al. shouldn't have raised fans' expectations.
Everyone is talkign about how the "SEC just got toughter with Meyer and Spurrier"... Well, guess what Tiger fans? We got Les Miles! ...and further more, we're talking about "growing pains" and being concerned with how Miles will get the players through it ,etc. WHAT?! Meyer and Spurrier-coached teams won't have growing pains in their first year?!?!?!? Get real! SUCK IT UP, CRYBABIES!!!! :bncry: :thumb: LSU is NOT the ONLY program in the SEC, heading for a new season of "unknown". Everyone wants to talk about being more like Florida and South Carolina--in that WE want Spurrier or a coach with all the new-found national pub. like Meyers... OK. Let's BE like those schools! ....AND SUPPORT OUR NEW COACH!!!!!!
We need to give our new boy a chance. He seems like he's a good coach. We can't forget that Saban wasn't a big name coach before he came here. He looked a lot like Les Miles does now. He had had some success with the second level school of the state, was consistently improving the program, but hadn't been able to win a conference. Miles has been in the same position at Oklahoma State, so maybe he'll be just as good or even better than Saban at a number 1 school with the talent pool we have here. No reason to think differently until he gives us reason to. I for one am not upset with the choice. I understand the importance of getting someone in quick to try to keep recruits, and Miles is supposed to be a good recruiter. The thing that scares me a little bit is that he's an offensive mind, and offensive minds need good defensive coordinators, and from what I understand, the one he's probably going to bring with him hasn't been impressive. But we'll just have to wait and see. I've become spoiled to having a coach of high integrity though. I would rather have a good football coach, who cares about the students, and who doesn't get involved in activities like strippers at the hotel, or threatening fratboys, than a great football coach who doesn't care about the players and embarrasses the university. I'm an LSU alumn, and I like to see us represented well. I don't know much about Miles at this point, but he seems like someone who's going to continue the integrity of LSU football, as well as win a good bit. He seems like he can even recruit well without the aid of prostitutes. Let's support him fellas.
How did Saban "screw us?" How could his timing have been different? Please explain, as I really do not understand. Do you mean that his timing would have been better if he moved on to a bigger stage/challenge in, say, 2010?
O.K. Saban did not screw us himself. But the timing of his departure (Unlike ND, UF or Pitt for example) basically put us behind the 8-ball in everything from Recruiting to Bowl Game prep, to finding a new coach... So to make you happy, the Timing of Sabans departure along with the week hang time cost us.
As much as I agree that the timing of Saban's departure hurt the LSU football program. I dont see how it could have been much different. ND, UF, and Pitt all fired their coach. Saban couldn't have given LSU his decision any more than a couple of days sooner than he did.
